Georeferencing Flickr photos using language models at different levels of granularity: An evidence based approach

Journal of Web Semantics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2012, Pages 17-31

  Van Laere, Olivier ^a   Schockaert, Steven ^b   Dhoedt, Bart ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer evidence theory; Geographic information retrieval; Georeferencing; Language models; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

DEMPSTER SHAFER EVIDENCE THEORY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GEOREFERENCING; LANGUAGE MODEL; WEB 2.0;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84869490458     PISSN: 15708268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2012.05.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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